Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [art] long period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 2 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
| 3 | Scientific work into the effects of vitamin E deficiency revealed that , in extreme cases , male animals deprived of the vitamin for a long period suffered irreparable damage to their testes . |
| 4 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 5 | If I get a movie script which means that I 've got to be away from home for a long period then I turn it down . ’ |
| 6 | In addition , income security for a long period decreases the risks associated with the investment . |
| 7 | Freud thought that the need for a long period of education for young men and women in the ‘ civilized ’ sections of modern societies was linked with the development of neurotic illness because of the deferment of sexual gratification necessary while education took place . |
| 8 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 9 | Mrs Mary Whelan , who lived next to the mine , said she was unable to use her tap water for a long period due to cyanide contamination . |
| 10 | It is only if a strike remains in the news for a long period that anything of its history or underlying causes will emerge and then only in the ‘ quality ’ press , rarely on television or in the tabloid newspapers where most people obtain their information . |
| 11 | Under the latter system arable land was put under grass for a long period after which it was returned to arable . |
| 12 | In the Covermaster Plan , Andrew , there 's something called waiver of premium , what this means to you is that if you 're off work through illness for a long period of time , Abbey 's going to pay the premiums for you . |
| 13 | Such horses that are locked up in stables without sensory stimulation for a long period will become permanently more anxious and fearful . |
| 14 | The importance of Stonyditch Point as the end of the spit for a long period is emphasised by the position of Orford , which was well situated as a port when the Ness ended at Stonyditch Point and not in its present position some miles to the south . |
| 15 | We ‘ book people ’ are somewhat defensive about our occupation of the Church for a long period , so the following incident naturally gave us new confidence . |
| 16 | Joseph Louis Barrow was , like Johnson , a formidable boxer who exerted total domination for a long period . |
| 17 | Pigs normally spend a large amount of their day searching for food and consuming food , and pigs which have no food for a long period often exhibit sham-chewing . |
| 18 | But many parents would clearly be unable to make this type of commitment and there will be mentally handicapped people , just as there are many ordinary people , who find themselves without an occupation for a long period of their lives . |
| 19 | Such a strategy , says Parkin , is adopted by professions like law and medicine , where long periods of training , very often only marginally relevant or even unnecessary to the actual performance of the job , restrict the numbers of those prepared , or able to afford , to forgo the rewards of an occupation for a long period . |
| 20 | We have had a problem for a long period of time now on high conductivity . |
| 21 | If the file is likely to be out of the sling for a long period put a note in the sling itself to show the new location . |